Jazz photographer Herman Leonard

Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

"My true love in photography isn't jazz, it's the world," says Herman Leonard. But music is the subject for which the 86-year-old is best known, through vivid black-and-white portraits of many jazz world legends.

"My true love in photography isn't jazz, it's the world," says Herman Leonard. But music is the subject for which the 86-year-old is best known, through vivid black-and-white portraits of many jazz world legends. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

"My true love in photography isn't jazz, it's the world," says Herman Leonard. But music is the subject for which the 86-year-old is best known, through vivid black-and-white portraits of many jazz world legends.